Play Your Home-Made Guitar

The Robot loves his maracas and he loves a good drum on anything he can hit. Now it’s time to introduce string, more importantly my home-made guitar. All you need is a baking tin and elastic bands. Put bands on the tin and ta da you have a guitar! Hand it to the baby and see what happens…

CAUTION: Do not leave your baby alone with this! Within moments of handing him his new toy he’d pulled one of the bands off, I intervened, and then I got hit in the leg by the second band that came off. Oh my, did that hurt, I’ve got a bruise to show for it! A solution that I’ve since came up with, tape the bands to the tin. It does makes a really cool noise, I’ve got different size bands and each makes a different sound.

It may not be the best toy for a nine month old but in a few months time, when I try it again, I am sure it will be greatly appreciated!

Do you have any other brilliant DIY toy ideas? Please let me know in the comments, I’d love to try some.

#ABC123 is a challenge I have set myself to complete 26 weeks of posts, every week a different letter of the alphabet. This week was the letter G.

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This is a great idea. We are at the age where helpful family and friends have bought our daughter too many musical toys already. This is a good reminder that I need to go hide her toy trumpet while she is sleeping…

Ah this is great. Karen you’re so inventive! I need to take tips from you as TM gets bigger, I am rubbish at thinking of (and executing!!) stuff like this. #KCACOLSEllen recently posted…A note to my baby boy

I love this! I
My son adores guitars, I hadn’t thought about the joys of elastic bands…I used to have hours of fun with instruments like this!
I hadn’t heard of the abc challenge, sounds interesting and hard work!….am I not following you? I thought I was, purely rhetorical, I’ll go and find out now. #pocolo

This is cute! We sometimes use formula milk tins as drums – they’re great as you don’t have to do anything to them, maybe just decorate them. You can bang on the plastic lid or the metal base to get different sounds! #KCACOLS

My little boy would love this! I’ll have to try it tomorrow, he likes to bash and push and pull stuff, he’s a rowdy little mite. I’ll take your advice with the tape too!
Thanks for linking up!
#HobbyMums